On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes: > > > This seems masochistic. I want to run a test with a different number > > of processes. So my best option is print out the options, cut & paste > > that soewhere, alter it to what I want, and run? Why would we have > > EXTRA_OPTIONS? > > I often want to run in a debugger with a command like > > mpiexec -n 2 xterm -e gdb -ex 'b file.c:123' -ex r --args ./ex12 > -some_options > > which just seems painful any other way. But if you want to write that > by remembering a collection of variables through which to pass each > part, I won't stop you. >
Good, don't stop me. Also don't prevent use from putting NPROCS into the test harness. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/>
